which everybody its Joe from complex

we're in New York City at scene goods

with the Emmy award-winning Grammy

award-winning Oscar award-winning and

Tony award-winning Whoopi Goldberg

sneakers for me have always been part of

my life

gonna do some sneaker shopping today

gonna see what she's feeling what she's

not and then hopefully she could apply

some sneakers

oh yes Joe I won't go away Joe go Whoopi

we're here for nobody's fool

but you always wore sneakers in your

movies you always made a point to where

am i remember the jumping jack flash

cover Reeboks yeah so even back then you

were a big sneaker person yeah I wanted

to be comfortable yeah you know I can do

the heel thing forever but if I could

wear a pair of sneakers I'm just happier

it was Reebok classics a lot right often

times but you know the colors were

really vibrant nobody had seen anything

like them before and I so I got them in

every every color that they had and then

they did this amazing collaboration with

alien yes the movie with Sigourney

Weaver and those I think there might

have been the alien stompers

I'm telling bait to me they were the

greatest ever yeah but yeah I was a real

Reebok girl and even to the Golden

Globes you won the Golden Globe for a

color purple yes yes I did you think

they would remember that but you know

outlook you get a little older people

forget all stuff that you did but

sneakers for me have always been part of

my life you know whether it was with my

brother who always wore the chucks and

you know always wanting to wear them and

them not having them yeah for girls and

now seeing this amazing explosion of

sneakers and they're being accepted as

Footwear for any time and I just love

that I love that one thing I saw Frank

Ocean more vans to the White House there

was some controversy like oh how can you

wear sneakers to the White House and you

stuck up for him and you said when I

went to the White House I was always

wearing sneakers he was wearing the

checkerboard Vance I mean it's like

number one if that's was freaking you

out you got more time on your hands than

you know

man is at the white house Frank Ocean

yes you know and he gets to be whoever

he is when he goes best who he is that's

the beauty of of being an American and

going to the White House so it was and

the view back then the people look at

you weird for wearing sneakers on those

events all the time you know why are you

doing that why you live because cuz you

are suffering and you look like you're

suffering so when the camera comes

around on you you like this right could

you feed her yeah they come around me

I'm like because I'm comfortable and I

don't care what people think about what

I'm wearing you know this is this is a

moment in time I will be one thing I

love is that you wear kind of outlandish

looking sneakers but you also mix and

match sneakers we saw that you wore two

different Pharrell's yes when do you

decide to do that and like step out your

own way

well I just think what will be most

interesting for me if I look down

perfect so that's how I do it I wish I

could say was deep of the met but I'm

not that thoughtful gotcha and do you

like Pharrell's collaboration I love

Pharrell collaborations I just think

it's really smart really wonderful and

and it gets people sort of talking and

thinking yeah no not I I love all of

these sneaker prices are kind of funny

sometimes so I try to stay outside of

the craziness special yeah thing

I like the boring stuff for me over

there another collaboration we got to

talk about Kanye you've been vocal

recently about Kanye and the things he's

been saying do we separate the art from

the artist yeah you have two people who

create stuff sometimes are out there

yeah and I just feel like you know I

can't judge anybody's craziness right

you know I have my own the older yeah

you know so is what he's creating you

know worthwhile does it last

is it beyond just to name value you know

because it's fine to have name value but

you want quality you want it to last a

little while because some of these

choose pricing yo then unless you are

making a whole bunch of money you're

saving up for your stuff so you want

last a little while you wore yellow

Foamposites all the sneaker blogs on the

internet cover their minds yeah and then

yeah and then you said they were one of

your favorite shoes because you liked

how kind of like left-of-center they

were yeah they just are you know you

could be from any way it could be from

Mars you could be from anywhere and if

you're like me this is the closest to

hobbits okay this is as close to a

Hobbit foot as you're gonna get

let me just touch those one more time

because those are paranormals crazy rare

Kirby's thousands of dollars thousands

of dollars I never had those but you had

these I think you have the gap a galaxy

one I've had several of them yeah I love

them I just think they're fun and you

know they didn't bore me and I think to

myself well you know if you're gonna

have something on your foot all day long